the name of a patrician family at Rome. The most noteworthy members of this family were Sulpicius Galba, who flourished at the beginning of the second century B.C., and distinguished himself in the wars with Philip of Macedon; Sergius Galba, who was praetor B.C. 151, and held Lusitania as his province, in which office he made himself notorious by his atrocious cruelties, for which he was tried on his return to Rome, and narrowly escaped punishment; and Sergius Sulpicius Galba, emperor of Rome from June A.D. 68 to January A.D. 69. (For the details of his life and reign see ROMAN HISTORY.)